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Inflation with negative potentials and the signature reversal symmetry

by: Audrey T. Mithani, Alex Vilenkin
(4 Feb 2013)  Key: citeulike:12001281

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We discuss recent papers by Hartle, Hawking and Hertog, which proposed that quantum cosmology could predict an inflating universe in models with negative scalar potentials. Here we show that this is a result of an underlying symmetry which is manifest in both classical and quantum theory. Moreover, we show that inflating solutions in such models generally develop tachyonic and ghost instabilities and are therefore unphysical in realistic theories.


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